I feel the same way. I've tried reading Derrida and find his writing philosophically more or less impenetrable; i.e. it doesn't really seem to say any...
I don't see how the biasing factor could be in the gravity that causes the coin to land, or in the toss, since the coin will start heads up or tails u...
We are 100% certain that, absent biasing factors, there is a 50% chance of either outcome. Are you 100% certain that "is always contradicted"? The poi...
What a pointless comment! That's not what I was saying though. I said that we are one hundred percent certain that there would be a fifty percent chan...
Of course ""I believe there is a God" is a statement of belief. You don't believe, you know, that there is a 50% chance, statistically speaking and as...
Not necessarily. I might predict (in the sense of bet on) inflation will continuing to rise based on that seeming to be, at a guess, the most likely o...
Toilet walls are best reserved for toilet humour. I used to drive cabs night shift back in the early seventies, and one of the best bits of toilet poe...
It's me, though, saying that feeling certain does not require a justification; insofar as justification is an inter-subjective requirement.That said, ...
We disagree right there; feeling certain does not require a justification (at least not an inter-subjective one), but being certain does. Taking somet...
I think science is an extension of ordinary everyday lived understanding. The world is intelligible, "makes sense", to us, and to animals; if it weren...
OK, so regarding the distinction between feeling certain and being certain; we can be certain of some things, so they are the things we know. Of the t...
. As I acknowledge, we have only observed a very limited part of the universe, but I disagree in that we have (so far) found the universe to be compre...
Not at all; I think things may be true regardless of how certain we might feel, but anything we can be certain of must be true. I don't think any beli...
I don't think this is an absolute presupposition, insofar as we have found that the universe is fairly coherently and consistently understandable to u...
To my mind you have these wrong except the first. Re the second, if one believes some statement one does not subject it to doubt, so the second is the...
Universeness, if your point is that same as Ken's, quoted here, which I agree with, then it is not "inconvenient for my point" at all. I'm still not s...
All this? Why didn't you read? Anyway, not exactly. It seems to me likely that if someone says 'I feel certain', unless they are critically minded, th...
This is also in accordance with my view. Of course, if you could be wrong then you can't be certain, but you could feel certain (but only if you didn'...
This does show Banno's lack of distinction between being certain and feeling certain; so yes, he is wrong on those terms. I would say, however, that w...
No, you've gone astray again because you conflate being certain with feeling certain. We can only (excluding the absurd kind of radical, artificial do...
No, (1) as you framed it is the same as (2). I've said plenty to clear up any ambiguity in what you quote there. It should be obvious in light of what...
'I believe the keys are likely to be in the car' is more consistent. That is keys being in the car seems to be the most plausible option, but of cours...
You are not very good at reading or at presenting arguments without resorting to trying to belittle your opponents. I have already made it clear that ...
I'd say there is certainty and then there are degrees of uncertainty; which just means that you are not certain, but that whatever it is that is at is...
On the back foot, with no argument, yet still asserting? I've shown the ambiguity in your terminology; can you show the purported confusion in mine; c...
If you are intellectually honest you don't believe the keys are in the car, but you think they are most likely to be there. My terminology is less amb...
You're conflating the possibility of being wrong with the acknowledgement of the possibility of being wrong; that's the ambiguity of your position rig...
Holding something to be true just is holding that it could not be false. You are contradicting yourself. No, one may advocate a view which one acknowl...
You're failing to see the distinction between believing something and merely accepting it for practical purposes because it seems to be the best expla...
I'm not sure what you are asking, Ken. I don't know what you count as your "intuitional beleifs" so I can't test you on any of them. I don't think I h...
The kinds of things I have listed as knowledge cannot be seriously doubted, let alone discovered to have been wrong. For me the proper attitude is to ...
A pointless comment eliciting this otherwise pointless response. They don't live their radical doubt and that is what I mean by "actual lives". In tha...
The best explanation is what makes a situation seem most intelligible. You say "what is real or else what is really the case"; why not just 'what seem...
There are two kinds of doubt: ordinary doubt and radical doubt. When it comes to taking the perspective of radical doubt, pretty much anything can be ...
As I said, it all depends on how you define belief. Deeming X to be most plausible is not the same as X seeming most plausible. My point is simply tha...
Complacency. A sense of powerlessness; an inability to unite with others in effective coordinated action. I don't see it that way. In my view, we shou...
I know that is the way things seem to me; there is no belief involved. I don't disagree with the definitions. Believing something is "holding it to be...
I don't see why the formula could not be: knowledge consists in justified true ideas. If I have an idea that such and such seems to be the case, and I...
Given what is already pragmatically accepted and entertained as what seems most plausible, then one or other of the alternatives will in turn seem the...
Only if it can be shown that they are really, when all things are taken into account, greener than fossil fuels. Otherwise they are projects doomed to...
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